Jerry Yang
Jerry Yang
Jerry Chih-Yuan Yangis a Taiwanese American Internet entrepreneur and programmer. He is the co-founder and former CEO of Yahoo! Inc...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionEntrepreneur
Date of Birth6 November 1968
CityTaipei, Taiwan
CountryUnited States of America
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I can't clearly comment on that ..., ... I Â would say that we are talking to a lot of people and we are talking to all the major companies around the world.
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I don't like the outcome of what happened with this thing, we get a lot of these orders, but we have to comply with the law and that's what we need to do.
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I do not like the outcome of what happens with these things. But we have to follow the law.
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It's a huge opportunity for Yahoo to be closer to our user base without them having to fire up a browser.
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The biggest struggle was probably giving up something that we'd been doing for five or six years, doing our Ph.D.s and almost being there.
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Not only does Yahoo! have a unique franchise, it increasingly has industry-leading tools, technology and, most importantly, people.
I wanted to be able to do things at my own pace, make mistakes and nobody would care.
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The last bastion of competitiveness is local advertising sales. There's little being spent by local advertisers on the Internet. That's where local media have leverage.
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The Internet, as a First Amendment medium, hinges on free expression, and that means free advertising.
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There's definitely a huge opportunity for businesses to transform their operations and decision making by using data.
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The Curbside founders are successful entrepreneurs, who each have sold their companies to Apple.
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The cloud has become the next-generation supercomputer, and the smartphone has provided the revolution to spur its use.
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The challenge for us is to build partnerships over time that will realize the benefits others are gaining through mergers and acquisitions.
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The 'Field of Dreams' Internet--where the assumption was 'If you build it, they will come'--is no longer a reality. Content sites can no longer grow organically, and I give only six more months for most new electronic commerce sites.